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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing again (was Re: OO, C++,
 and something much better!)
Date: 1997/01/30
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feldmand@erols.com (Damon Feldman) writes:

>To my knowledge all statically-typed languages do static type checking.

Uh, what about K&R C?

Well, I guess even K&R C did _some_ static type checking.
It didn't do much, though.

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